A Tale Of Two River Cities
7 September 2003 - 11:00am
St. Louis and Portland are renewing their connections with the rivers that make the cities important.
Just like Portland, St. Louis is where it is because two great rivers come together. But like too many places, in St. Louis the rivers and the people came apart. The Missouri and the Mississippi were hard to get to, uninviting for recreation and increasingly polluted, and the contamination not only contributed to the separation, it demonstrated it."
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The Oregonian, September 7, 2003
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